Harassing the Terrorists

Here is a ridiculous quote about terrorists form Fran Towsend, Homeland Security Advisor, after the release of the National Intelligence report that shows Al Qaeda is getting stronger...

The fact is we were harassing them in Afghanistan, we're harassing them in Iraq, we're harassing them in other ways, nonmilitary, around the world. And the answer is, every time you poke the hornet's nest, they are bound to come back and push back on you. That doesn't suggest to me that we shouldn't be doing it.

This quote shows what has been wrong with the way the Bush administration has been fighting terrorists. After 9/11 Bush promised to bring the terrorists to justice and to capture bin Laden, not to harass the terrorists. It is no wonder his poll numbers are so low. The American people don't want to harass the terrorists or to poke the hornets nest and that is exactly what we are doing in Iraq.

We need to take fighting terrorism seriously and that means we need to do more than harass terrorists. We need to redeploy our troops from Iraq, put more troops in Afghanistan, get back to tracking down Osama bin Laden, secure our open ports, secure loose nuclear materials, and combat the terror networks around the world that pose a threat to us.

We can not accomplish these things when all of our resources are in Iraq. Staying in Iraq only gives Al Qaeda a recruting pitch and an easy target to attack American soldiers. We won't be safer until Republicans, including Sen. Grassley, stop focusing solely on Iraq and begin to see terrorism as a serious worldwide threat.